Monitoring with SNMP

Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is an application protocol that offers network management services. Using SNMP, you can monitor an instance of Microsoft® SQL Server™ across different platforms (for example, Microsoft Windows NT® 4.0, Microsoft Windows® 98, and UNIX).

With SQL Server and the Microsoft SQL Server Management Information Base (MSSQL-MIB), you can use SNMP applications to:

• Monitor the status of SQL Server installations. SNMP can only be used to monitor the default instances of SQL Server.
  
  
• Monitor performance information.
  
  
• Access databases.
  
  
• View server and database configuration parameters.